Bug#366992: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#366992: debiandoc-sgml: [INTL:uk] Ukrainian language support

[Jens Seidel]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:19:16PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> 18 травня 2006 о 09:48 +0200 Jens Seidel написав(-ла):
> > PS: I wonder why you do not use capitalisation of subsection, paragraph, ...
> > (розділ, параграф) as for chapter, appendix, ... But I'm sure you have good
> > reasons.
> In Ukrainian there is no tradition to start words with capital letters
> in the middle of a sentence (unless it is a proper name), and those

I know.

> words are only used in places like "see "bla bla bla", chapter XX.X",
> in the middle of a sentence (except "chapter" and some more,
> that can appear at the begining of a header, so translated with first
> capital letter). 

Hhm, OK. I thought "chapter", "appendix", as well as "section", ... is always
put in front of a headline, but this is of course false. 
You're right that the current capitalisation of chapter seems to be a minor problem:

http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/quick-reference/ch-preface.ru.html:
Существует два подхода, чтобы позволить вам работать на самых последних версиях ПО Debian: 
* Обновление до дистрибутива testing, Глава 2 (в основном для рабочих станций) 
* Портирование пакета в систему на базе stable, раздел 3.4.10 (в основном для серверов)

Глава (chapter) is in contrast to раздел (subsubsection) written with a
capital letter, which probably needs to be fixed. Can you please confirm this a
last time?

I will also check other translations for this. A simple flag in the locale settings
should be sufficient whether or not to use capitals. Ah, what about Asian languages,
Osamu?
Maybe it easier to duplicate the strings in the locale according to usage, it's
a simple solution.

I will stop now discussing with you otherwise we detect more problems :-)

Jens